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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph, from left to right, of Elizabeth West and Bessie Velzy standing beneath a corner the canopy that covers the Velzy's sleeping quarters. They stand on the left side of the image between two trees and face to the left. The canopy stretched above them is anchored to the ground to the left of Elizabeth, a tree at center and to rocks to the right. Under the canopy, a bed sits low to the ground to the right of Bessie and extends behind her to the right. On the right, boulders are in a pile. Clothes lie and hang around the campsite. Jackets hang from the tree at center, a shirt hangs off the right side of the canopy, clothes lie on the rocks and a shirt hangs from tree branches in the upper right corner. A person's shadow is in the lower left corner. Text from negative sleeve: 356. Convict Lake, 1915. Glen Velzy and wife make their bed in the rocks right alongside of Convict Creek. Bessie Velzy and Elizabeth West in rear. Another picture of the bedroom. 2 negatives.
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_000356_001 ark:/21198/zz002hq6nf
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Canopies--California--Mammoth Lakes Inyo National Forest (Calif. and Nev.) Tents--California--Mammoth Lakes Boulders--California Camping--California--Mammoth Lakes Siemsen, Elizabeth West, 1903-1966 Velzy, Bessie Grace McGee, b. 1883 or 84-1918
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